历年
2006.1 美西
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: (2006.1)
I do not feel terrible about my mistakes, though I grieve the pain they have sometimes caused others. Our lives are “experiments with truth,” and in an experiment negative results are lat least as important as successes. I have no idea how I would have learned the truth about myself and my calling without the mistakes I have made.
Adapted from Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
Assignment: Is it necessary to make mistakes, even when doing so has negative consequences for other people? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
1. 题目翻译：
我并不为我的错误感到不安，尽管我有时为它带给他人的痛苦感到惭愧。我们的生活是真相的实验，在试验中，负面结果和成功一样重要。我不知道如果不是因为这些错误，我怎能认清自己和自己的人生。
题目：犯错是必要的吗?即使犯错有时会为别人带来负面影响。
2. 审题关键词：individual, community
3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲：
正：At least making mistakes means that you have tried. That is the first step towards success.
反：Making mistakes will strike your confidence and sometimes cause others problems.
补：With aging, people are more and more afraid of making mistakes. Thus, when encountering such people, we sometimes perceive them as heroes.
2006.5 美西
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: (2006.5)
Certainly anyone who insists on condemning all lies should think about what would happen if we could reliably tell when our family, friends, colleagues, and government leaders were deceiving us. It is tempting to think that the world would become a better place without the hand, perhaps there is such a thing as too much honesty.
Adapted from Allison Kornet, “The Truth About Lying”
Assignment: Would the world be a better place if everyone always told the complete truth? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.
1. 题目翻译：
坚持谴责所有谎言的人都应当想到如果我们能够正确分辨出什么时候我们的家人、朋友、同事和政府官员在欺骗我们。让世界没有谎言的想法或许听起来极具诱惑力，但有可能确实存在过度诚实。
题目：如果每个人都完全诚实，世界会变得更美好吗?
2. 审题关键词：better, complete truth
3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲：
正：Honesty will save people much trouble from telling whether people are telling lies or not.
反：Sometimes, telling lies are better than being completely honest. For example, doctors tell white lies in order to extend patients’ lives.
补：Too much honesty is no less harmful than telling lies.
2006.10 美西
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: (2006.10)
Sometimes it is necessary to challenge what people in authority claim to be true. Although some respect for authority is, no doubt, necessary in order for any group or organization to function, questioning the people in charge-even if they are experts or leaders in their fields-makes us better thinkers. It forces all concerned to defend old ideas and decisions and to consider new ones. Sometimes it can even correct old errors in thought and put an end to wrong actions.
Assignment: Is it important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.
1. 题目翻译：
有时候，挑战权威人士声称是对的东西是有必要的。尽管对权威的尊重毫无疑问对任何组织的运行是必要的，然而质疑负责人让我们拥有更好的思想。不论是领域内的专家还是领导。这让所有的相关者都必须维护旧的思想和决定，并且思考新的思想和决定。有时候，甚至纠正过往的错误，停止错误的行动。
题目：质疑权威人士的观点和决定重要吗?
2. 审题关键词：question, authority
3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲：
正：Authorities are not always right. Without questioning them, we can never break away from the past and discover new things.
反：Authorities have more experience and expertise to help us understand things better.
补：Authorities can be wrong sometimes. Yet questioning everything they say is no more harmful than accepting what they believe.